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Incorporating Affirmative Action into the Welfare State
Blumkin, Tomer; Margalioth, Yoram Y.; Sadka, Efraim - 2021
In this paper, we discuss a novel aspect of affirmative action policy. We examine its redistributive role, asking whether in an egalitarian society, supplementing the tax-transfer system with an affirmative action policy would enhance social welfare
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Social Insurance, Incentives and Risk Taking
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 1998
redistribution creates more post-tax inequality …
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Social Insurance, Incentives and Risk Taking
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 1998
redistribution creates more post-tax inequality. The welfare state will encounter severe risks when free migration of people, goods …
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Fair and efficent taxation under partial control
Ooghe, Erwin; Peichl, Andreas - 2014
We study fair and efficient tax-benefit schemes based on income and non-income factors under partial control. Partial control means that each factor is a specific mixture of unobserved ability (randomly drawn by nature) and effort (chosen by individuals who differ in tastes). Factors differ in...
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Wage Policies, Employment, and Redistributive Efficiency
Ooghe, Erwin - 2016
I analyze whether wage policies -- like minimum wages and wage subsidies -- can add value to an optimal non-linear earnings tax scheme in a perfectly competitive labour market. Jobs in the labour market differ along two margins: intensity (labour effort) and duration (labour hours). Three key...
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Unequal Inequalities : Do Progressive Taxes Reduce Income Inequality?
Duncan, Denvil - 2012
This paper analyzes the effect of changes in structural progressivity of national income tax systems on observed and actual income inequality. Using several unique measures of progressivity over the 1981-2005 period for a large panel of countries, we find that progressivity reduces inequality in...
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Chapter 12 Redistribution
Boadway, Robin; Keen, Michael - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 1, (pp. 677-789). 2000
and measurement of, redistribution. Amongst the themes are: the potential usefulness of apparently inefficient policy … instruments in overcoming the self-selection constraints on redistribution and limiting the damage that ill …, while there are circumstances in which redistribution may plausibly generate efficiency gains, the likelihood that some …
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Distributional and welfare effects of replacing monetary benefits with iniversal basic income in Spain
Badenes Plá, Nuria; Gambau-Suelves, Borja; Navas … - 2019
This papers quantifies the redistributive effects on progressivity, poverty and welfare, that would occur if the monetary benefits currently in place in the Spanish system were to be replaced by a neutral alternative in terms of spending, granting a universal basic income (UBI) to everyone. We...
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Immigration and redistribution
Elsner, Benjamin; Concannon, Jeff - 2020
welcome more immigrants. On theoretical grounds, the relationship between immigration and support for redistribution is … ambiguous. Immigration may increase ethnic diversity, which may reduce the support for redistribution. On the other hand …, natives may demand more redistribution as an insurance against labour market risks brought by immigration. In this chapter, we …
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The normative analysis of tagging revisited : dealing with stigmatization
Jacquet, Laurence; Van der Linden, Bruno - In: FinanzArchiv : European journal of public finance 62 (2006) 2, pp. 168-198
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